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Book SynopsisLouise Baring has written for The Economist, the Independent on Sunday Review, Vogue, and the Daily Telegraph. She is the author of several books on photography: Martine Franck; Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour; Emmy Andriesse: Hidden Lens; and Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso.
Trade Review'Lartigue's snatched portraits, for all the period details they capture, seem, like his previous images of speed and movement, oddly contemporary' - Observer
'A titan of 20th-century photography who captured the spirit of his age' - Royal Photographic Society Journal
'Details a golden age as seen through the lens of an unusual photographer' - Standpoint
'Terrific' - Vogue Italia
'Brings a wonderful clarity to his formative years ... beautiful, blithe, strange, addictive' - World of Interiors
'Gives a spotlight to an era often overlooked by the First World War' - .Cent Magazine
'Baring engagingly sets out the context of the Lartigue family and supplies pocket biographies for the figures ... who populate Lartigue’s photographs' - William Boyd, The Spectator
'Captures the carefree, haute-bourgeois lifestyle of the young photographer' - Financial Times
'An affectionate memoir' - Mature Times
'Leafing through these pages is to experience the heyday of a bygone age' - The Lady
'Delightful ... a testament to Lartigue’s intense love of the world and the pleasures it affords' - John Banville, Irish Times
'Proustian ... distils an era through a charmed, yearning but sharp and original eye' - Financial Times
'Draws on Lartigue’s diaries and photograph albums to create a vivid impression of the photographer’s childhood, years during which he would produce an extraordinary body of work that would, in time, become synonymous with that era’ ' - The New European
'Baring's scholarly book on child prodigy Jacques Henri Lartigue locates his photographs within the extraordinary era that they were made' - British Journal of Photography
'A vivid insight into early 20th-century France … has the quirky intimacy of a family album' - Best Art Books of 2020, Sunday Times
'Excellent' - Julian Barnes, London Review of Books
Table of ContentsIntroduction • An Enclosed World • A Seaside Album • La Vie du Château • Prisoners of Pleasure • The Beauty of Speed • A Sporting Life • The End of an Era
